Lee County's most prestigious and profitable fundraiser is mere days away. Southwest Florida Wine & Food Fest kicks off Friday night with 10 exclusive vintner dinners that will be held in homes around the area. More than a dozen local chefs are kicking things into high gear in anticipation of these dinners, and of the [...]

Executive Chef Brent Moore at Tiburon Golf Club in North Naples has been a kind of Johnny Appleseed in reverse. He's gathered choice morsels from Colorado to New York to Texas and points between. Sometimes, he found them at culinary school, but most often at internships, paying jobs and even in unpaid stints learning from [...]

Trustees, dinner hosts, sponsors and their guests gathered at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa for a 2015 Southwest Florida Wine & Food Fest auction preview. The SWFL Children's Charities' two-day signature event, scheduled for Feb. 27 and 28, raises funds for local children's charities. Chef-Vintner Dinners will be held Friday evening in [...]

SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES pledged $10 million for the new Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida. Trustees hope to fulfill that pledge with proceeds from the 2015 Southwest Florida Wine & Food Fest. The only facility of its kind between Tampa and Miami makes it possible for Southwest Florida children to receive extraordinary medical care near their [...]

IN THE NEWS: Florida Weekly Myriad Cellars and Quivet Cellars have joined the 2015 Southwest Florida Wine & Food Fest as signature vintners for the SWFL Children's Charities' signature event Friday and Saturday, Feb. 27-28, to raise funds for local children's charities. Mike Smith founded Myriad Cellars, which is based in St. Helena, Calif., releasing [...]